Take a Chance...or Else...

The biggest chance you ever took?
Or, how about the dumbest chance you ever took?
Or, if you could've seen forward in time a day or two, what is the one chance you would have refused to take?

Celine Dion sang these words:
"...what do you say to takin' chances?
What do you say to jumpin' off the edge?
Never knowin' if there's solid ground below
Or a hand to hold or hell to pay
What do you say?  What do you say?"

And there is this wisdom from some unknown source: "The only trouble with resisting temptation is that you may not get a second chance."

I don't know which one I would list as the biggest chance I ever took?  Maybe parenthood.  Maybe my profession.
Sitting on the loveseat across the front room from me, Pretty Lady says the biggest chance she ever took was driving cross-country with three kids under ten years of age.

The dumbest chance I ever took?  It was pretty dumb trying to hike across the Grand Canyon for the third time.  I wasn't really in the best shape to do it and had to be airlifted out by helicopter when my body began shutting down on me.  Thank goodness my sons were there to make the important decisions necessary to get me the heck outta there.  If I thought about it long enough, I could probably come up with something even dumber...mine has been a full life in that regard.
Julia Soul says, "If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances."

If you could see forward in time a day or two, what is the one chance you would never take?  Well, that's just silly.  None of us can see forward in time.  And to stop taking chances based on what we think we can see down the road is to stop being fully alive.  Don't ya think?

Never knowin' if there's solid ground below
Or a hand to hold or hell to pay
What do you say? 
What do you say to takin' chances?

Here's a big chance to take: "Our lives only improve when we take chances and the first amd most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."  (That comes from Walter Anderson.)

So, hey there, go ahead, tear off one of those "A Chance" tabs in the picture above.  Yeah, for real, take one.

Take a chance.  Or else.  Or else you'll never be fully alive.  You don't want that.  Really, you don't.